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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:28:11 +0200
From: Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: wxPython 2.8?
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On Sun 09 Sep 2007 15:09, Luke Dean wrote:
> 
> I've got a Python app that seems to require wxPython 2.8.
> The ports collection only has 2.6.
> Do you think it would it be worthwhile for me to download the source and attempt to compile it on my system or should I ask the port 
> maintainer?

wxgtk 2.8 is in the ports collection(x11/toolkits/wxgtk28), you're
probably using an outdated snapshot of the ports collection.
See the FreeBSD handbook on how to update your ports collection:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html

Regards,
Martin Tournoij